A new Pew Research survey spanning 19 countries says negative sentiment toward China has remained high due to human-rights concerns
Negative sentiment toward China, which shot up around the world in 2020 after Beijing’s mishandling of the emergence of COVID-19, has remained high because of human-rights concerns, a new report says.
In a Pew Research survey spanning 19 countries, including Canada, a median of 68 per cent of respondents said they had an unfavourable view of China. Negative views have remained at or near historic highsIn Canada, some 74 per cent of respondents said they held an unfavourable view of China, the highest level since the survey began in 2002. Negative sentiment was strongest in Japan, at 87 per cent, while only 34 per cent of Singaporeans felt the same.
Pew said unfavourable opinions of China, while initially boosted by the pandemic, have remained high because of “concerns about China’s policies on human rights,” which a majority of respondents ranked as a greater concern than Beijing’s military power, economic competitiveness or alleged interference in their country’s domestic politics.
“Adults in Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States have become significantly more critical of China over the past year,” the report says. “Unfavourable views of China have gone up by 21 percentage points in Poland and Israel and 15 points in Hungary, which were all last surveyed in 2019. Belgium stands as the only country where fewer people hold an unfavourable view of China this year than last year.
In most of Europe and North America, a majority of people said it was more important to defend human rights in dealings with Beijing, no matter the economic consequences. Those on the ideological left “are particularly likely to favour promoting human rights compared with those on the ideological right,” despite the fact many conservative politicians in Canada and elsewhere are leading critics of Beijing.Percentage who say their country should ...
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